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Old 18-October-2006, 07:42 AM
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I remember the '66 Leonids. The most incredible thing I have ever seen! I saw it from the middle of Topeka, Kansas with a high cirrus partial cloud cover. Even still, there was not a single second without several meteors in the sky! I have read, that because of the drift of the Leonid stream, it may not again happen again in our lifetimes. By the 2030s, when the comet comes around again, the main stream will no longer intersect the orbit of Earth.
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